Cataclysm Beta: New Macintosh Repair Tool

With the new streaming client released last week in the Cataclysm beta, Blizzard has also apparently decided to sneak in something that has been missing from the Macintosh client for quite some time. Repair.app works exactly like the Windows version, in that it will check your MPQ files against the current patch file and restores any that are corrupt. Now instead of reinstalling the game or restoring it from backup, Macintosh users will have an easy way to restore their World of Warcraft installation!

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评论来自 lyph3

Has anyone had the repair program actually fix a problem? All it's ever done for me is delete my addons and settings (while the problem remains).

Speaking of addons and settings, is anyone else sick of obvious server-side bug reports being met with a "delete your addon and wtf folders"?

评论来自 Silverblue

on 2010-08-09T15:28:22-05:00

Has anyone had the repair program actually fix a problem? All it's ever done for me is delete my addons and settings (while the problem remains).

It's fixed a few problems for me, but not all of them. I keep backups of my add-on's in a completely separate folder so when I do have to "fix" WoW I don't have to re-hunt them down, re-download them, and re-unzip them.

评论来自 Jakelong

on 2010-08-09T15:34:49-05:00

Awesome! Finally it's here, thanks blizz :)

评论来自 BrokenCowLeg

on 2010-08-09T15:37:35-05:00

Has anyone had the repair program actually fix a problem? All it's ever done for me is delete my addons and settings (while the problem remains).

It typically fixes stuff like a graphical crash error that happens to alot of people when entering major cities.

评论来自 Dr00desu

on 2010-08-09T15:49:51-05:00

Implying people play WoW on Macs.

评论来自 Psycke

on 2010-08-09T15:50:28-05:00

Has anyone had the repair program actually fix a problem? All it's ever done for me is delete my addons and settings (while the problem remains).

Speaking of addons and settings, is anyone else sick of obvious server-side bug reports being met with a "delete your addon and wtf folders"?

To be honest, addons aren't deleted. There is a saying, if you don't know how to use computer, do not use it at all. No offence or anything (about the previous sentence), but always when I've used Repair Tool, I've never ran into addon problems. They're backed up whenever you launch the repair tool, and you can set them back up after it.

P.S. Have never used Repair Tool on my WoW installation, plus I've never reinstalled WoW, same as Windows. :)

评论来自 Kyndrid

on 2010-08-09T15:59:07-05:00

Implying people play WoW on Macs.

There aren't many other games to play on a Mac.

评论来自 Blackboy0

on 2010-08-09T16:10:41-05:00

Took them long enough to add this =\"

评论来自 Skaarjonic

On topic: I've had it fix a couple errors for me, but nothing major. Back during BC I had these odd, vertical lines that would always show up on my chatbox (bright and yellow). Ran the repair tool, and they were gone.

评论来自 twentysicks

on 2010-08-09T16:37:45-05:00

I play WoW on a Mac, always have.

评论来自 twentysicks

on 2010-08-09T16:38:21-05:00

Implying people play WoW on Macs.

Hooooo, nicely small minded there dude!

评论来自 milalyr

on 2010-08-09T16:54:12-05:00

Hooray, it finally exists!

I haven't required the use of such a thing yet; the only crashes I get are memory exceptions that are apparently some combination of the latest OSX updates + video card drivers, and I haven't even gotten those lately. But every time I saw my boyfriend have to use his repair.exe I always wondered "Why can't they make a repair.app?"

Oho, I can stop asking now. 8)

评论来自 DoomDR

on 2010-08-09T16:55:24-05:00

I play WoW on a macbook, it' terrible.that is why I am building a PC ...

评论来自 ArthNegri

on 2010-08-09T17:02:10-05:00

"Now instead of reinstalling the game or restoring it from backup, Macintosh users will have an easy way to restore their World of Warcraft installation!"Windows want it 2!

评论来自 Hellphantine

on 2010-08-09T17:09:38-05:00

The better and morelong term way to fix this problem is smash your mac and install it on a REAL computer.

评论来自 Moxddom

on 2010-08-09T17:27:54-05:00

Lovin' the generic overdone PC-twat Mac-hate in here. *yawn*

I play WoW on my Macbook and it runs perfectly without a problem, doubt I'll even need this tool unlike when I played WoW on Windows. Ugh.

评论来自 milalyr

on 2010-08-09T18:36:07-05:00

WoW on two macs with no problem.WoW on boyfriend's PC with constant corrupt file crashes.

To basically agree with the guy above me, "yawn".

OS wars are almost the biggest waste of time, second only to politics.

评论来自 Mylan

on 2010-08-09T18:46:42-05:00

There are few certainties in life: Death, Taxes, and Pointless Hate towards political, religious, and operating system differences.

评论来自 ShotgunForFun

on 2010-08-09T18:57:34-05:00

Of course there are people hating on Macs.. Their OS is only letting them use an internet browser right now. Maybe soon their OS will decide they can actually go play WoW.

I personally play WoW on Ultra while watching Hulu on my 20something iMac... Once you grow up.. and pay for your own stuff. You won't use an OS that doesn't even run.. just for a higher polygon count. Having to replace components more than twice a year.

评论来自 Bakaleaf

on 2010-08-09T19:17:16-05:00

Of course there are people hating on Macs.. Their OS is only letting them use an internet browser right now. Maybe soon their OS will decide they can actually go play WoW.

I personally play WoW on Ultra while watching Hulu on my 20something iMac... Once you grow up.. and pay for your own stuff. You won't use an OS that doesn't even run.. just for a higher polygon count. Having to replace components more than twice a year.

i just gotta ask which OS you were talking about in the first sentence. my personal experience with mac hasnt been fun...mostly glaring at the screen asking why it takes a minute for the word "together" to get in a document